For administrators at Harper College in Illinois, 10,604 is the magic number—it’s the college’s share of the 5 million additional community college graduates President Obama challenged the nation’s two-year career and technical institutions to contribute to the economy by 2020.
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Establishing a Culture of Completion
By Dr. Rod Risley
Many of our leaders have expressed that the economic prosperity of any nation is inextricably tied to the education of its citizens. In the United States, obtaining a higher education credential is a pursuit that many now consider a civil right and an essential pathway toward achieving the American Dream of upward social and economic mobility. So it seems the purveyors of higher education credentials who provide individual and collective prosperity must accept responsibility for providing a product that is relevant, useful, and has future intrinsic and economic utility.
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May 15, 2013
The goals of the Completion Agenda in the community college—to double the number of students who complete a one-year certificate, an associate degree or who transfer to another college or university to complete a credential—is the reform movement of this decade and perhaps the next.
May 6, 2013
David Leonhardt of the New York Times says that young workers in the U.S. face a more challenging job market than their counterparts in hard hit places like Europe. His article "The Idled Young Americans" appeared in Sunday’s New York Times.